Kathmandu, January 4:

Thousands of MBBS examinees, who appeared in the entrance examinations on December 6, conducted classes on the street before Shankar Dev campus today to express their wrath against the government for not publishing the results within the stipulated time.

Though the Ministry of Education had announced that it would publish the results within a week, it has not published the same yet.

The examinees have formed a struggle committee and have been staging protest programmes to pile pressure on the government to publish results at the earliest. The committee has been staging different protest programmes on the streets for the last ten days.

Himlal Bhandari, coordinator of Entrance Examinees Struggle Committee, told this daily today that the 75 seats of scholarship for MBBS students in different TU-affiliated colleges would freeze if the results were not published by February 11. “We are staging protest programmes to urge the Ministry to pay its attention to the issue,” Bhandari said, adding, “The country will have to bear a loss of around Rs 200 million because of the delay in the publication of MBBS results.”

Bhandari alleged that the state was not becoming responsible towards the future of thousands

of students. “It is not logical to sit in the classroom and protest. Therefore, we are compelled to come to the streets,” he added.